Sunday, March 8, 2009

Check out your local Family History Centre for FREE resources

Local LDS Family History Centers* (FHC) can provide a wealth of genealogy information.

Popular Websites available for free through local Family History Centers are:

Footnote - a subscription based website featuring searchable, original documents. Mostly US based but do have items of interest for other geographic areas.

Godfrey Memorial Library - extensive collection of resources including newspapers, city and business directories, vital records, printed census records, state, county and local histories, as well as numerous family histories, family bible records, service and pension records.

Heritage Quest/ProQuest - includes a complete set of U.S. Federal Census Images from 1790 to 1930 including names and indexes for many. Users will be albe to find people and places located in over 20,000 published family and local histories and PERSI, an index of 1.9 million genealogy and local history articles. Other online database include Revolutionary War Pension, Bounty-Land Warrant Application files and the Freedman Bank Records.

Kindred Konnections - has over 230 million pedigree linked names with submitter information. There are additional databases of birth, marriage, death and census records that are automatically searched along with the pedigree linked data.

World Vital Records - provides access to research helps and a wide variety of international records, including more than 60 parish registers, Scottish death records, UK marriages and Irish prisoner records. There are more than 300 newspapers with 100,000 pages added a month and over 500 online databses.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Left Handed Kerr or Carr?

Are you a left handed Kerr or Carr?

If so check a recent post on my blog.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

My Grandmother....Mail Order Bride

A mail order bride....what does that mean to you?

My grandparents knew.

I recently blogged their story in here.